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Brian Magi
brian dot magi at charlotte dot edu
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Geography and Earth Sciences
UNC Charlotte
McEniry 331
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001Meta
Category Archives: Group News
AGU session to explore drivers of fire
I’m excited to be hosting an American Geophysical Union (AGU) session in December 2017 and excited about only having to fly to New Orleans instead of San Francisco. This is the first time in many many years that AGU has … Continue reading
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Tagged AGU, climate-fire interactions, fire, human-fire interactions, pyrogeography
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Pyrogeography at the AAG Conference
Another major conference is on the horizon – the Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting which is in Chicago this year. Check #AAG15. Conferences are absolutely critical for multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary research, and I think for just about all research. Science, like … Continue reading
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Tagged AAG, climate-fire interactions, fire, global environmental change, human-fire interactions, interdisciplinary research, pyrogeography
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Attending AMS 2015 in Phoenix
MESAS students Warren Pettee and Thomas Winesett and I will be attending AMS 2015 (#AMS2015), along with many others from UNC Charlotte. I heard the count was about 8 undergraduate students from the Meteorology Program. Professor Casey Davenport and I … Continue reading
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Tagged AMS, GES, lightning, research, student research, undergraduate research
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Funded graduate research assistant for fire modeling project
This is an advertisement I am circulating around to listserves and colleagues to recruit a graduate student (Masters or PhD) into my recently-funded NSF research project. The grant title is “Collaborative Research: Testing Hypotheses About Fire Using Data Syntheses and … Continue reading
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Tagged fire, human-fire interactions, Prospective Students, pyrogeography, student research
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President Obama takes the offensive on climate change
Wow. What a speech this afternoon by President Obama on the Georgetown University campus – and a beautiful follow up to his Inaugural Address in January and his State of the Union speech shortly thereafter – noting one satire piece … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, global environmental change, global warming, impacts, USA
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Coffee is the greatest and healthiest drink on the planet
Ok, maybe this article/post doesn’t exactly say what I chose to title this. But I like coffee, so all my scientific training goes out the window and I just nod at every self-reinforcing statement in that article. I’ll admit that … Continue reading
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UNC Charlotte undergraduate research
The Meteorology Program here at UNC Charlotte is embedded in the Geography and Earth Sciences Department. We have solid core of undergraduate Meteorology BSc majors and coursework in the major is mostly supported by 4 faculty – Dr Adams, Dr … Continue reading
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Tagged fire, graduate school, lightning, undergraduate research
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Charlotte Research Scholars 2013
Cross-posted from a campus-wide announcement. I participated as a CRS mentor in Summer 2012 and have volunteered to participate again this summer. Please let me know if you’re interested in working on a project – this is a great chance … Continue reading
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News for prospective students in Fall 2013
I will have money to support a Masters degree student as a Teaching Assistant in Fall 2013 – full application (with letters of rec) is due 1 February 2013. Please read through the materials on my research page, starting with … Continue reading
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Science meeting in Austin Texas
If you’re an undergraduate in physics, math, or a related field, and thinking about graduate school options, my colleague Professor Manda Adams and I will be in Austin, Texas from January 5-11 2013 for the American Meteorological Society Student Conference … Continue reading
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